Pet Project

Scanography

This is the one-scan I did. I took a few of my scarves and just layered them on top of the scanner. I had to do it a few times to get the right amount of light without the scarves looking squashed from pressing down the scanner. I also boosted the saturation and brightness a little. 

This is a collage I made from several different things I scanned. I took some cds and album covers from my car and scanned each of them individually. Then I layered them on top of each other and used several different blending layers. I used vivid light for the layers that had text in them. I also used pin light and overlay in a couple other layers such as the cd's. I adjusted the opacity levels and then added a burn border in blue around the whole collage. The images below are the individually scanned items. 

Fine Art Templates

Photo Descriptions:

1. This is one of my favorite pictures that I took at the beginning of the semester. I really liked the way the water and the bridge look together. There are no edits to the image. I made a template with 5 squares and then dragged this photo on top. 

2. I took this picture when I went with my family to Peru. It was taken a little ways outside of Cusco near the Sacred Valley. There were no edits added to this photo. I also added my name to both fine art templates and used Helvetica Neue as the font choice. 

Photo Info:

1. Rexburg Bridge - 5/3/10, 7:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/5.6, 1/800, Canon PowerShot

2. Peru - 6/11/08, 1:00 p.m., Cusco, Peru, f/5.6, 1/320, Canon PowerShot

Photolusions

Photo Descriptions:

1. The first photo I took when we went on the field trip to Bannack. We found some gallows and Ryley decided to jump off and make it look like he was hanging. He stood on a stump and I focused my camera on him. Then he would jump in the air and I would take the picture while he was in mid-air. I took several shots of him doing this and I used another picture of this for a different post as an extra photograph. 

2. For this photolusion blend, I took a picture of my roommate Sheila posing on the ground looking behind her so it would look like she was looking down at the ground. Then I took a picture of a brick wall in the middle of Rexburg. I cut out Sheila using the quick selection tool. Then I sized down the picture of Sheila and then dragged it on top of the brick wall image. Then I added a luminosity adjustment layer to Sheila and took out the color in both the brick wall image and the sheila layer. I tried to make it look like Sheila was actually climbing the wall. I wasn't sure exactly how to go about doing this but I think it turned out all right. 

Photo Info:

1. Ryley - 5/21/10, 4:00 p.m., Bannack Ghost Town, f/4.0, 1/250, Sony DSC H7
2. Sheila - 6/22/10, 7:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/3.5, 1/320, Canon PowerShot
3. Brick Wall - 6/22/10, 7:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/3.5, 1/400, Canon PowerShot

Edge and Border Effects

Photo Edits:

1. I bumped up the saturation of the original photo and then I added a sprayed edge effect to the image. I chose a white background because no colors in the photo really stood out to me. I also used the maximum settings for the spray radius. 

2. I added a sprayed edge effect to this photo and used the eye dropper tool to pull the green out of her shorts and make it the color of the border. I also added her name in a cute font at the bottom corner. 

3. I added a brushed-on effect to this photo and used several different brushes to create this border. I enlarged the canvas size as well. I also used an artistic filter on the original image. 

4. There are no edits done to this image. 

Photo Info:

1. Water Tower - 6/2/10, 6:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/9.0, 1/200, Canon PowerShot

2. Kylie Mei - 4/15/10, 6:00 p.m., Broken Bow, Oklahoma, f/2.8, 1/60, Canon PowerShot

3. Sheila - 5/15/10, 8:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/2.8, 1/640, Canon PowerShot

4. Slide - 6/5/10, 9:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/2.8, 1/30, Canon PowerShot

Night and Light

I did minor editing to the first three photos. I brightened the images and bumped up the saturation a little in all three. For the last picture, I edited it in camera raw. When I took this picture, me and my roommate bought some glow sticks and then broke them on a playground. I couldn't have much light in the photo otherwise the glow stick liquid wouldn't really glow like I wanted it to. I spun the merry-go-round causing the glow stick liquid to slide down and streak, then took my picture. It really didn't turn out like I wanted it to but I tried. It looked really cool in person. 

Photo Info:

1. Movie Theatre - 6/14/10, 11:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/2.8, 1/8, Canon PowerShot

2. Main Street - 6/14/10, 11:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/2.8, 1/8, Canon PowerShot

3. Lights - 6/14/10, 11:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/2.8, 1/8, Canon PowerShot

4. Playground - 6/14/10, 10:00 p.m., Rexburg, ID, f/2.8, 1/8, Canon PowerShot

Week of Pictures

I created this custom photobook page in Illustrator and then saved it as a template and a jpg for this blog. To make the pictures the sizes I wanted I created a square on top of the white square and then made a clipping mask to make the picture the size I wanted. I wanted to have these photos look like those instant cameras when they print out pictures. I didn't know what theme to use since all my pictures are pretty different so I just chose contrasting colors that I liked. The first image is the template and the second is the final photobook page.